House porn Friday

Well... it is almost the weekend. Why not ogle some gratuitous, unattainable architecture? Here are a few highlights from the new Taschen 'Architecture Now!' book (it's volume three, and is out next month). 

And, as you'd expect if you're familiar with other marvellously eye-popping buildings books by Taschen, the houses featured are insane. What I like about these, even though they are all new designs, is the way a lot of them so unashamedly reference the Modernist 50s and 60s. Like this concrete-wooden beauty, for starters...

Really love the bookshelves here, which turn a whole section of wall into a feature. And one that you don't need a Taschen house budget to copy...

Ooh. Wood panelling (above left) makes me dizzy in a good way. And what about that coffee table?

There are also just some really nuts houses. Like this, above, a whole new take on (beautiful) brutalism.

And this mad, multi-balconied building...

Architecture Now! Houses. Vol. 3, by Philip Jodidio is published in English, French and German, by Taschen in March 2013 and costs £34.99.